Rick,
You read my mind…The traffic and congestion from zombies behind the wheel is particularly maddening this year. I agree 110% on the move-your-ass-up-if-you’re-taking-a-left-thank-you-very-much, bozo, but the zombies on rented bicycles have elevated clueless to a whole new level….Wrong way, wrong way on sidewalks, four abreast in the lane riding very slooooowly and completely, selfishly and stupidly unaware someone with a two ton truck is behind them….It is a good thing I can’t get arrested for murderous thoughts.
Pot luck is the best, but your optional angle is a good one to get the non-contributing folks to join the party, as well. Cynthia’s party was fantastic. It doesn’t hurt to have great live music and to hear you sing a love song to your wife! Party on 🙂
Hi Rick, it sounds like the party was great! Wish I’d been there, and also wish I’d been there, not just because I love Cynthia, but because I’d have loved to hear you sing that love song to her! You’re the best!
On the driving note, I was surprised at this and would have gotten the answer wrong had I not taken notes during the 8 hour driver’s course to get my $35 discount on my insurance – I highly recommend it, in fact, I need to take it again as my discount has run out. This course was presented online by the National Safety Council and you can stop in the middle of it, save it and go back to it whenever you want or you would literally be sitting at the computer the whole eight hours. Contrary to what you said above and what I’ve always done, because I was taught to do it, they urge that we NOT pull ahead into the intersection when the light turns green, if we’re turning left – unless it is the left turn signal light that has turned green. Their reasoning is that being in the intersection leaves you vulnerable and with absolutely no place to go if there is a collision that knocks cars into the intersection, which there would be if one of them ran the light and hit the oncoming one. So, unless I see that the oncoming car is way far away, so that I can go ahead, pull into the intersection and make my left turn before that car is close to the intersection, I stay behind the line. Of course, I stay alert enough not to wait through an entire left turn opening and miss my chance of turning. I turn as soon as the light turns green if no cars are close or as soon as the left turn signal turns green unless some fool runs his red light, which happened to me just a week ago when my left turn light changed to green, and I practically stood on the brake or I’d have been in a bad collision as he was flying through the red light into the intersection! Fortunately most of the lights at the big intersections here in West Palm are delayed to the extent that all lanes are stopped at the same time before a turn light changes to green, which has been a blessing and reduced intersection collisions considerably. UNLESS you have that fool who is speeding through the red light regardless of what else is happening!
Rick,
You read my mind…The traffic and congestion from zombies behind the wheel is particularly maddening this year. I agree 110% on the move-your-ass-up-if-you’re-taking-a-left-thank-you-very-much, bozo, but the zombies on rented bicycles have elevated clueless to a whole new level….Wrong way, wrong way on sidewalks, four abreast in the lane riding very slooooowly and completely, selfishly and stupidly unaware someone with a two ton truck is behind them….It is a good thing I can’t get arrested for murderous thoughts.
Pot luck is the best, but your optional angle is a good one to get the non-contributing folks to join the party, as well. Cynthia’s party was fantastic. It doesn’t hurt to have great live music and to hear you sing a love song to your wife! Party on 🙂
Hi Rick, it sounds like the party was great! Wish I’d been there, and also wish I’d been there, not just because I love Cynthia, but because I’d have loved to hear you sing that love song to her! You’re the best!
On the driving note, I was surprised at this and would have gotten the answer wrong had I not taken notes during the 8 hour driver’s course to get my $35 discount on my insurance – I highly recommend it, in fact, I need to take it again as my discount has run out. This course was presented online by the National Safety Council and you can stop in the middle of it, save it and go back to it whenever you want or you would literally be sitting at the computer the whole eight hours. Contrary to what you said above and what I’ve always done, because I was taught to do it, they urge that we NOT pull ahead into the intersection when the light turns green, if we’re turning left – unless it is the left turn signal light that has turned green. Their reasoning is that being in the intersection leaves you vulnerable and with absolutely no place to go if there is a collision that knocks cars into the intersection, which there would be if one of them ran the light and hit the oncoming one. So, unless I see that the oncoming car is way far away, so that I can go ahead, pull into the intersection and make my left turn before that car is close to the intersection, I stay behind the line. Of course, I stay alert enough not to wait through an entire left turn opening and miss my chance of turning. I turn as soon as the light turns green if no cars are close or as soon as the left turn signal turns green unless some fool runs his red light, which happened to me just a week ago when my left turn light changed to green, and I practically stood on the brake or I’d have been in a bad collision as he was flying through the red light into the intersection! Fortunately most of the lights at the big intersections here in West Palm are delayed to the extent that all lanes are stopped at the same time before a turn light changes to green, which has been a blessing and reduced intersection collisions considerably. UNLESS you have that fool who is speeding through the red light regardless of what else is happening!